From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Gonz=E1lez_Casta=F1os?= Subject: Re: compile kernel 2.6 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:32:04 +0100 Message-ID: <43CE7B94.3010703@tid.es> References: <43CA4740.5080803@yahoo.es> <43CE3668.7050402@tid.es> <6.2.3.4.0.20060118134231.02061190@127.0.0.1> <43CE591A.8070202@tid.es> <6.2.3.4.0.20060118153013.02146600@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <6.2.3.4.0.20060118153013.02146600@127.0.0.1> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org > > I would however like to see something that says "If you have no > modules you don't need an initrd". And your error message does > say you can't mount the root fs. The unknown-block(3,3) bit of the > kernel panic is interesting aswell. If i knew what device/partition > that refers to it might help but i don't. Maybe someone on the list > knows whether 3,3 relates to /dev/hda3 or not. > You could also possibly change the filesystem to ext2 temporarily and > see if that makes any odds. I always used monolithic kernels for servers and never need mkinitrd for the kernel series 2.4.x. I do not know regarding 2.6.x. Does anyone know how to turn on debug messages on boot? Many thanks, Miguel